Charles Murray
@charlesmurray
Husband, father, social scientist, writer, Madisonian. Or maybe right-wing ideologue, pseudoscientist, evil. Opinions differ.
1/2 Advice for small colleges with good-but-not-top-tier prestige: The first among you to announce that henceforth admissions will be based exclusively on test scores will immediately become a safety application for 1500-1600 SAT students who are subsequently turned down
Nowhere in this article does it mention that all the major late night shows are openly contemptuous of half of the American population. Seems relevant. washingtonpost.com/opinions/inter…
I think the problem is not adoption per se, but that the parents seem so oblivious to the ways in which it didn’t have to become necessary.
why on earth are people stigmatizing the decision to put a baby up for adoption here? there are dozens of loving couples eager to adopt every baby who needs a home. if it is not the right time for a couple to raise their own kid, finding them a loving home is praiseworthy.
Apparently she didn't read TBC that carefully. Here's how we discussed the problem in the infamous Chapter 13:
I never read The Bell Curve. Was too young, didn’t learn about it until 2020. I read one of the refutation books though and knew you nailed it when the lady refuting your key finding controlled for income of the parents and the IQ differences came to almost precisely zero. That…
Anyone who has ever tried to "control for" something in a statistical analysis had better read this. I was aware of most of what Cremieux has to say, but not all of it. cremieux.xyz/p/you-cant-jus…
Battle of Waterloo Minute by Minute In 60 Seconds credit: Mapsinanutshell (Youtube) More about the battle: brilliantmaps.com/waterloo-60s/
I would like to get nominations for for "solutions that are mindnumbingly obvious but that people won't implement." I'll start. To stop the obsolescence of great championship courses that are ruined by the increased length of drives, the PGA should require players to use…
I would revise it from "bottom quintile" to "those in the bottom quintile of IQ who could work but don't." I'm not saying our problems would go away if we somehow forced them to work, but that "out of the labor force" and IQ<88 captures the great majority of people that…
This is absolutely true.
Lots of interesting replies to my post about women's pro tennis vs the WNBA. Here's a list of sports for which watching top-level women compete doesn't make me think to myself "They really aren't that good": tennis, gymnastics, swimming, skiing, racing, golf, figure skating (a…
How about going back to wooden rackets?
How would making the court bigger help? That just opens them up to more winners given how men hit the ball much faster than they can run. To slow down men’s tennis the ball would need to be bigger.
You don't have to be a poker player to find this fascinating and moving. (For those who aren't, you should know that Chidwick is phenomenally good.)
Hello X. Many of you will know me as a top poker player who doesn’t say very much, and for a long time, I guess I didn’t really think I had much of value to say. I’ve kept a low profile for most of my life. I’ve built my career with a quiet determination and focus on the…
The contrast with women’s tennis is relevant. Women’s tennis can be as exciting as men’s (at least for an amateur watcher). There’s no obvious difference in the athleticism even though the speed is slower. But the difference between the athleticism of WNBA players and even…
Um, it’s reinforced every time people *do* watch a WNBA game.
Mine too, among the ones I’ve written. Not the hardest or the one I’m proudest of, but the one I most enjoy rereading.
My favorite non-fiction book.
Everyone working in a STEM field should read this - ‘writing is thinking’ nature.com/articles/s4422…
For the record, I was aware of that they were complementary even before Bryan was.
Curiously, Charles Murray wrote three books explaining (relative) poverty in the US. All three books are great, but each offers a seemingly different explanation: in Losing Ground, he blames the welfare state; in The Bell Curve, he points to low IQ; in Coming Apart, he blames the…
Reasonable people can make a case that George Mueller's decision to go for all-up testing of the Saturn V was even bolder. But not as risky in human terms. George Low (a brilliant man and beloved leader) scared the bejeezus out of a lot of the people who were tasked with…
George Low - The Man Who Won the Moon Race. George Low’s idea to shoot for the moon in 1968 may have been Apollo’s boldest decision: airspacemag.com/.../apollo-8-g…
I recapitulated a core argument of The Bell Curve in Coming Apart, even including some text from TBC. None of the reviewers or commentators about Coming Apart mentioned that I'd done it (of those that I've read).
@charlesmurray knows something about this phenomenon.
Oh. I forgot to mention the source. Still available on Kindle. amazon.com/Apollo-Catheri…
